Changes to rent a room scheme

valery

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Last Tuesday is was announced
  • the government will extend the Rent a Room scheme disregard for social welfare recipients and extend the disregard into medical card criteria from 1 May 2023 and allow Local Authority tenancies to access the scheme

They are desperately scratching around to announce new schemes to address the housing crisis while ignoring the reasons why small landlords are selling up.

As at last August it was reported that Local Authorities were owed €105m in unpaid rent,
Dublin City Council is owed more than €38 million in rent arrears from social housing tenants. The average weekly rent charge is €72.54 ...
 
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